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Liability Risk and Insurance

GM appeals US$1.2bn Malibu award

General Motors is appealing the US$1.2bn award to six people badly burned in a Chevrolet Malibu. It claims the Los Angeles superior court judge refused to let jurors hear that the crash was caused by a speeding drunk driver, or that the Malibu was, at the time of crash in 1993, recognised as one of the safest cars on the road.

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